Jan 6, 2014 5:08 PM

I found this in the Margate coast and I've been wondering what it could be, looking online we thought there is a chance of beeing a tooth of some kind, it really looks like a mammoth tooth but its maybe too small?

Nice find. It's definietly not a mammoth tooth, but it looks like a fossil, maybe a shark coprolite. It also looks like a fragment of a trilobite, but I would guess a shark coprolite, although I'm probably wrong.

Hi, thanks for your replies. It is rather heavy but it doesn't have any iron pyrites in it. It is not as symmetrical as most ammonites appear, it looks more like a ptychodus tooth or a two-sided finger print. It looks like a wave pattern,

I've been looking at the images a bit more and I now agree with tabfish- it is an ammonite. I think it is the outer whorl, towards the end of it where the squid-like creature stuck out of. Pic4 looks particularly like an ammonite.

I can see what is meant by the structure curving, but ammonites are only VERY rarely preserved in flint, banding looks too irregular to me. I think this is one of those specimens which need to be seen in person to be sure; I would hold onto it for now.